Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Tat=too i THE DEAD CHIEFTAIN. American history does not re call a death more universally de plored than the tragic death of President William McKinley. In the midst of realizing his noble ambition to unite all sections of this country, he was stricken down, by the ruthless hand of Anarchal fanaticism. The American nation has met with a loss that is keenly felt over the entire globe and in no section more sincerely mourned than in the South. President McKinley did more to make this, the greatest of nations, thanlany other president since Lee's spot less sword was sheathed at Ap pomatox, and by his wise and benevolent administration, the sectional lines of enmity were almost entirely obliterated. To day we have a united country, one flag and one people. President McKinley is no more, but his name will be rev erently handed down in history as one of the greatest Chief Magistrates. OUR NEW PRESIDNT. Theodore Roosevelt has as sumed the duties of Chief Magis trate of the United States and immediately after taking the oath of office, with commendable greatness, he said that he would carry out the policies of his pre decessor. There seems to be an idea prevailing that the new president will not be friendly towards the South, and that he will go back to the policy of the Republican party when the country was in a distracted and almost disrupted condition. Times have changed, the Repub lican party of the days of Grant, is not the Republican party led by McKinley. In the days of Grant,the wai- scars were gaping open and the people of the South were the victims of the horrors of the reconstruction ,period. The bloody shirt wave all over the North, and in the South the1 Stars and Stripes were despised. Today the national emblem is revered with as strong and as loyal faith in the South as at the North, and we have become recognized and appreciated as an important part of the Union. Roosevelt does not belong to the school that breathed hatred for the South, he has been brought up under the new and progres sive conditions, and when he gave his promise to carry out his lamented predecessor's poll cies, the South may rest assured that we will not be turned back wards. The life of Roosevelt shows him to be about 43 years of age, a man of strong will power, and determination. He will not be come the political puppet* for any man or party. His adminis tration will be marked with Con servatism, and in his endeavor to carry out his promise, there wilibe all the way through ita characteristic individuality. SELL COTTON BUT HOLD CORN. The crop conditions are so unsatisfactory that it is hard to form an idea what course is best to pursue with regard to cotton. In this State the cotton crop is very short-not over 50 per cent. In the States of Georgia, Ala bama, Texas and Mississippi the reports are so conflicting that we are reminded of the condition that existed in 1889 when Ben Terrell came through this coun try advising our people to hold their cotton. He told us that the Texas farmers would hold, and if the farmers in the rest of the cotton growing States would do the same, that it was in our pow er to control the price. What was the result? The farmers of the other States held the bulk of their cotton and Texas slipped hers into market to get nine cents per pound, and when our farmers found out the trick they began shipping, with the result, that the market went down, down, down, until it reached five cents. Texas, through her paid emissary fooled us, and ever since we have had no confidence whatsoever in the reports that come from this State. In our opinion, it never pays to hold cotton, and yet if the crops are short everywhere like they are here we cannot see what is to keep the price down, The safe rule is, and has always been, to gather the cotton as rapidly as possible, have it ginned direct from the fields, and market it quick, and we would advise all of our readers to stick to that rule. Jas Sounded. readers not to sell their corn or forage, both of these great ne cessities will be scarce next spring and will command tre mendous prices. There are al ways some people, however, re gardless of the conditions, who will sell their corn, especially about Christmas, these people will not heed advice, and in the spring and summer they must go in debt as a result of their heed lessness. Our advice is, where a man cannot be persuaded to keep his corn, and will sell it, that his neighbors buy it and not let it get out of the neighbor hood. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props., Toledo. 0. We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years. and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan ciaNy able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST & TRUAX, wholesale druggists, Toledo, C. WALDING. KINNAN & MARvn;, wholesale drug gists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. An Appeal to Reason by T. Larry Gantt. ARTICLE VIII. When King William III, of Eng land was making those clipped coins into full-weight pieces there was a serious dearth in the money market. On one occasion a howling mob sur rounded the residence of one of the members responsible for this bill, and demanded that they be given new money for their old coins. The as sailed gentleman, in answer to this cla mor, came to his door and announced to the crowd that he was ready to com ply with their request, and asked that they at once pass up all of their mu tilated coins to him, and he would give them new pieces in exchange. After ransacking pockets only two shillings were found in the whole crowd. It is often the case that men who only pay a poll tax have most to pay when as sessment on property is increased. The South constitutes not only in area but in wealth, a very small portion of the United States. I have not the figures at hand, but I don't suppose the cotton-growing States pay much more than one-twentieth of the general tax. But, at the same time, we must keep in mind that the poorer the man or section, the harder to bear is the bur den of taxation. The above is a prologue to what I will write about what is known as the ship subsidy bill. .If as my esteemed friend Col. John B. Cleveland most forcibly argued in his Union speech, the Southern cotton manufacturer and cotton grower will be most benefited by this law, we should remember that the ~East, North, West and Pacific States must bear the bulk of the bur den. I never discuss a question that 1 know nothing about, and I must con fess that this ship subsidy agitation is an entirely new issue to which I have given but little consideration. I heard Senator McLaurin's explanation of the bill in Spartanburg and also read Colo nel Cleveland's Union speech, and both of these gentlemen, from a Southern standpoint, presented every 2.ong reasons in support of the bill and which arguments I have never as yet seen satisfactorily answered. If I mistake not Senator Tillman voted to pay the Southern Railway a subsidy of $70,000 a year to secure the rapid delivery of our Eastern mails. In fact, in our new and undeveloped country, it is often necessary to back great individual enterprises with public money, to secure their completion. There is not a railway line entering Spartanburg that the people were not taxed to pay a subsidy to secure. All the great Pacific railways were given a subsidy in the way of public lands or a government endorsement. The won derful development of that sandbank and mosquito incubator, Florida, is at tributable to the same liberal spirit of giving subsidies. Our pension laws are a subsidy for Union soldiers. Every river and har bor opened and improved through a government appropriation is a subsidy given to the immediate cities and sec tions thus benefited at the cost of the public. The high duties levied on foreign goods is simply a subsidy tak en from the pockets of the people for the benefit of home manufacturers. In fact, every capitalist who invests his money in developing this country is either directly or indirectly paid a subsidy by the government. Now, if some scheme can be devised by which the honest and hardworking ti'ller of the soil can also reap a like benefit, I am in favor of him having it; or if any class of our people need a helping hand it is the Southern cotton grower. One of the principal planks in the platform of the Farmer's Alliance was a demand for government ownership or control of railroads. I favored this plank, for I believed the interest of the masses would be best subserved did the general government control those great iron-bound arteries of commerce that checker our land. In several European countries their governments operate railways and freight and pas senger traffic are much lower than in America. Now, does it not appear, if it is right for the government to con Cured of Chronic Diarrhoea After Thirty Years of Suffering. I suffered for thirty years with diarrhoea and thought I was past being cured." says John S. Halloway or French Camp. Miss. "I had spent so much time and money and suffered so much that I had given up all hopes of recovery. I was so feeble from the effects of the diarrhoea that I could do no kind of labor, could not even travel, but by accident I was permitted to find a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy. and after taking seve.ial bottles I am entirely cur'ed of that trouble. I am so pleased with the result that I am anxious that it be in reach of all who suffer as I have." For srale by Te R. B. Loryea Drug Store, Isaac M. trol arteries of commerce on land, is it not even more important that the United States should control t h e steamship transportation lines across the trackless ocean? England and other foreign nations pay a subsidy to their great navigation lines and the natural result is that a large part of the trade of the United States is now carried on in foreign bot toms, and as the countries controlling those vessels are our business rivals, it is natural that they should work against our interests. Our Southern cotton farmers have justly complained that the price of their staple is fixed is Liverpool, and whose interest it is to buy our staple as low as possible. Now, just so long as we must depend on English and other foreign vessels to transport our cotton, our farmers will remain at the mercy of those foreign buyers. I have never seen that ship subsidy bill, and it may have all the objection able features that it's opponents claim for it. But I do nct believe if some schet-me could be devised to encourage American shipbuilders, and thus ren der this country independent of for eign vessels and then let congress fix the price for transporting cotton and other products and goods to the dif ferent foreign markets, that such a law would be a Godsend to Southern farL rs for they would then in truth become beneficiaries of our policy of subsidy. The government ought to do some thing to protect our American farm ers. Either place a high duty on im ported agricultural products, or give our farmers cheap freight rates across the briny deep, so as to enable them to control their crops and be indepen dent. of foreign nations. It is a very foolish policy for the South to oppose every bill that eman ates from a Republician source with out first studying and investigating the same. We have a common govern ment and a common interest, and it is very often the case that a law which will benefit the North and the West will equally benefit the South. We should not be controlled altogether by passion and by prejudice, but, in con sidering all great public questions bring to bear reason and common sense. Anyone who will read Colonel Cleve land's Union speech must confess that he has advanced some very strong, if not convincing, arguments in favor of the proposition that congress should encourage and build up Amercian ship ping by granting subsidesto new steam ship lines. Colonel Cleveland contends that our American goods will never be able to invade many markets until they are shipped on American vessels, sail ing under the Stars and Stripes. - I read all the speeches delivered at that same Union meeting, by several distinguished gentlemen and who were opposed to Colonel Cleveland's views, but if one of those orators advanced a single argument to offset the plain and business-like reasoning of Colonel Cleveland, it escaped my eyes. Personal denunciation of Senator McLaurin, and wild and unsupported charges that those papers and men who agree with his advanced views have been bought up by Mark Hanna and are traitors to the Democratic party are not replies to a rational and clean ly put argument. I know, so far as I am concerned, that I have never seen the color of Mark Hanna's or anyone else's money, except what I have made from my'farm or through legitimate lines of business; and neither would I accept any office within the gift of President McKinley or anyone else. And yet I am earnest in my desire to see the Democratic party torn loose from its populistic moorings, and our next platform made so broad and so liberal that every Democrat can get and stand thereon. I want to see those old defunct issues that have been twice repudiated by the voters of this country, relegated to the rear, and our next national candidates go before the country on newer and living issues. I want to see the gates of democracy in South Carolina thrown wide open and every man and every candidate given an opportunity to declare his views, without being deluged with personal abuse and biilingsgate. Any cause of any party that cannot stand the test .of reason and free, open and honest dis cussion, deserves to go down in defeat, and can never long triumph. There is no denying the fact that the Democratic pa'rty is now on the verge of dissolution, and we cannot afford to meet with another defeat. To steer our ship safely through the breakers that now surround our party will re quire the united efforts of our purest and clearest headed statesmen. And I cannot imagine a greater ca lamity that could befall this country than an abandonment of the Democrat ic party, for it is the only organization that stands between the people and the oppressive and tyrannical power of combined capital, as represented by the Republican party. In its place would spring into existence an anarch istic party, made up of every disgrunt ted and' revolutionary element in our country, menacing alike civilization, liberty and property. This letter closes my series of artic les. I have doubtless taken an advan vanced position that will not meet the endorsement of many of my friends. But I am sincere and honest in my views, and have advocated those same ideas even before our last Democratic convention. It is not my desire to boost any man for any office, but ad vocate, in my humble way, what I be lieve will soonest and best promote the happiness and prosperity of my people and the development and up-building of my native State and beloved South land. Under no circumstances would I be a candidate for any office within the gift of any man or the people. I have re tired for good and all from active journalism and expect to spend the r e mainder of my days looking~ after my farming interests and striving for what I believe will be to the best interest of the humble tiller of the soil and the laboring classes and masses. T. L. GANTT Inman, S. C., Aug. 1901. It Girdles the Globe. The fame of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, as the best in the world, extends round the earth. It's the one perfect healer of Cuts. Corns. Burns. Bruises. Sores, Scalds. Boils, Umcers, Felons, Aches, Pains and all Skin Eruptions. Only in fallible Pile Cure. s~ a box at The R. B. Lor yea Drug Store.1 A Frien's Tribute. Died last Friday Bennie Walker aged about 19 years.' The deceased had been in feeble health, and his last ill ness was of short duration. Bennie was a general favorite, and althoug~h feeble in health he was of an energetic disposition and was building up a pros perous business. Rev. P. B. Wells con ducted the funeral services at the cemetery Saturday afternoon. To Cure A Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's sig nature is on each box. 25c. WANTED-SEVER AL PERSONS OF CHAR. acter and good reputation in each state (one in this county required) to represent and adver tise old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. salary $18.00 weekly with expenses additional, all payable in cash each Wednesday direct from head ofiices. Horse and carriage furnished, when necessary. References. Enclose self-addressed stampe envelope. Manager. 316 Caxton Building. 'hi cago. [e6-e4 t. You know What You Are Taking When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure, No pay. 50c. Pyny-Balsam Relieves Bight Away New Zion Dots. Editor The Manning Times: Your correspondent has been away on a little trip is the cause of his not having a letter in your last issue. On the 10th. there was an excursion to the famous Isle of Palms, and I took ad vantage of the apportunity to get a dip in the Atlantic. I should have been glad to have had the TIME'S editor along and watched him in the surf with his fellow citizens, male and female. Good behavior was largely instrumen tal in bringing tbe crowd back on their return tickets. The excursion manage ment deserves credit for the handling of the large crowd. Mr. J. W. Fleming is still lingering with illness. The entire community sympathizes with him. Mr. Ed Green has returned to Clar endon and has accepted a position as section masteron a portion of the Alder man railroad. Everybody is glad that Ed is back home again. Your comments on Manning's market is the subject of favorable comment in this section. The farmers have their eyes open to all the "tricks of the trade" and they do not hesitate to give the TIMES editor credit for being the people's friend, and constantly watching their interests. I believe that all of Clarendon's farmers should patronize the Manning market, and they really want to, but human nature is the same all over the world and our farmers are like the farmers everywhere, they want the full market price for their cotton and tobacco, and if the market at the county seat wont give it, they will seek elsewhere. I believe the merchants of Manning can make that town a first class market if they will, but if they will let people take the market and run it to suit themselves, it is bound to be run into the ground. Already, since the TIMEs has begun an agitation of this matter the market became quickened, and a few farmers got better prices. Keep the ball roll ing until you have convinced Manning's merchants that they must be up and doing or they will get down and be undone. The people of Clarendon may not al ways agree with the TIMES editor's conclusions, but they cannot help but give him credit for a sincere desire to take care of the people. As for me, I am free to confess that I am a convert to the policies advocated by the TIMES, and the more I read it's ably written editorials the more thorough do I un derstand our conditions and the more convinced do I become that "Old Ap" has got a level head and he has the manhood to use it, as his judgment di rects. He does not wait to see which side will be the most popular with the Poli ticians, but he goes right ahead and advocates what be believes is right. I have watched his course, and he has always been consisitant. Therefore I have a strong faith in his honesty and judgment, and notwithstanding the ef forts that have been made to discredit him, the people regard him as their friend and will stick to him. Colonel Gantt's "Appeal to Reason" is the best school on national questions I have ever seen and I hope he will keep on in his good work. Every let ter is a sledge-hammer blow on the shackles of political slavery. I am glad to see so many correspondents in the TIMES. It makes the paper inter esting, as it gives all of us an idea of what is going on allover the county. B. Better Than White Lead that's what L. & M. Paint is. Cheaper too. Prove it by showing you houses in good condition that were painted years ago and clinch the proof with facts and figures. The R. B. Laoryea Drug Store, Sole Agents, Manning, S.C. Stages of Water. Camden, Sept. 13, 8 a. m.-Height of Wateree river, 6.7 feet, being a fall of 3 10 of a foot dur ing past 24 hours. Sept. 17, 8 a. m.-Height of Wateree river, 6.5 feet. being a fall of 4-10 of a foot during past 24 hours. Columbia, Sept. i3, 8 a. m.-Height of Conga ree river, 2.2 feet, being stationary during past 24 hours. Sept. 16, 8 a. m.-Height of Congaree river, 2.3 feet, being a fall of 5-10 of.a foot during past 24 hours. St. Stephen's, Sept. 15, 8 a. m.-Height of Santee river, 9 feet, being a fall of 5-10 of a foot during past 24 hours.. Sept. 16, 8 a. m.-Height of Santee river, 8.7 feet, being a fall of 5-10 of a foot during past 24 hours. Cuts and Bruises Quickly Cured. Chamberlain's Pain Balm applied to a cut. bruise, burn, scald or like injury will Instantly allay the pain and will heal the parts In less tIme than any other treatment. Unless the In jury Is very severe It will not leave a scar. Pain Balm also cureis rheumatism, sprains. swellings and lameness. For sale by The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. Isaac M. Loryea, Prop. O A . T O .Z A. ern h, Th8 Kind You Have Always Bo~ght Beware of Green Fruit.-Now in the heated term people should pay atten tion to their diet, avoiding unripe fruit and stale vegetables which itnvariably bring on cramps, cholrea morbus, or diarrhoea. Children are particularly subject to complaints of this king, and no mother can feel safe without having a bottle of PAIN-KILLER. It is -a safe, sura and 0peedy cure. Avoid substi tutes, there is but one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis'. Price 25c. and 50c. Notice of Limited Partners hip. T HE UNDE RSIGNED HAVE formed a limited partnership to be con ducted under the name of John G. Slaughter Limited with its principal place of business at Manning, South Carolina. The business of the said partnership is to be buying, selling and trading in leaf tobacco. John G. Slaughter is a general part ner and to have the general manage ment of the business of the partnership. M. 1P. Jordan is a special partner and has contributed to the common stock of said partnership the sum of $750.0)0 dollars. Tulian C. Jordan is a special partner and has contributed to the common stock of the partnership the sum of $250.00 dollars. This partnersh'p is to commence on the 1st, day of Jul 1901 and to termi nate on the 1st, day of July 1902. JNo. G. SLAUGHTER, of Danville, Va. M. P. JORDAN, of Danvilie, Va. JULIEN C. JORDAN, of Danville, Va. July 1st, 1601. [27-6t Supervisor's Notice. Persons ir tending to buy seed cotton are required to first obtain the reco mendation of the landowners in the township in which they propose to buy. The licene fee is $25.00 and all par ties who propose to deal in seed cotton had best take out license at once, as the law will be enforced. The penalty for its violation is severe, and the inform er gets one half of the fine imposed. T. C. OWENS. County Snpervisor. Notice to Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate of Sam Taylor, deceased, will present them duly attested, and those owing said estate will make payment to J. H. TIMMONS, C. C. P., Administrator. Manning, S. C., Sept 1, 1901 [2'7..At V+ liD IANNOUNCEMENT1 CALL AND SEE OUR NEW LINE OF WAISTINGS, TRICOTSI ALBATROSS, Etc. Plain and Striped. ...ALSO A NEW LINE OF... Embroidered Pattern Waists. All the New Colorings. These are just the materials for early Fall Waists, and the newest things shown. Take a Look at Our Line of ]BLACK GOODS.[ Everything that is new you will find here. I We are opening new goods every day. Soliciting a share of your trade, Yours, 1J. RYTTENBER9 & ONS, SUMTER, S. C. BLDWNO.A HORN Won't bring business nowadays. The people want GOOD, NICE, CLEAN GOODS for their money and not so much H ORNBLOW ING. We show our goods and quote prices and then the goods will sell themselves, as every thing we sell is at least 25 per cent. cheaper than our neighbors. THE RACKET STORE is known far and wide as he price-makers and trade-drawers, and everything we sell s sold under a guarantee, and when you visit our place (if ou have not done so already) youwill be convinced that we o as we say. Ours is a department store where everything is kept ex ept groceries. and every department is a store within itself. We employ notlhig but the best clerks and they all now their business and CAN BE RELIED UPON. W~e keep in touch with all the Northern markets and ~vhen there is a bargain for Manning we get it and give you he benefit of it. Our Styles and Values Are as high as the heavens and our prices are as low as the lowest depths of the sea and one price to every one. Our record is before you ; it is not made up of Trickeries and Misrepresentations. Don't be fooled by some of these big Horn Blowers and slick-tongued fellows, but come to us, as we carry a high class line of goods as cheap as some of our neighbors' common class goods. We want your trade and will give you 100 cents worth of goods for every dollar. We are the People to Save You Money. To buy right enables us to sell right. Any of the prices we quote invite comparison and our competitors' criticisms, particularly those that blow the big horn. We quote no prices on goods that we haven't on hand. Our sole aim is to give our customers the full value of their money. 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